K-type star · orange

HD 124678

HD 124678 is an orange in the constellation Boötes 470 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,037 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 47.56× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 470 years ago.

470 lybrightness mag 6.45K2

Also catalogued as HIP 69585

4,037 K
temperature
6.45
apparent magnitude
47.56× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
470 years
at light speed from Earth
0.70×
as hot as the Sun
47.56×
the Sun's light output
0.66
absolute magnitude
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HD 124678K-type
Sky regionBoötesthis direction
StarHR 538857 ly
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.5To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Boötes

Star data from the HYG database v4.2 (Astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0). Temperature and colour computed by gravityfinder from the B-V colour index; the illustration is generated from that temperature, not a photograph.